Ryouji started trembling with anger and tears started falling from his eyes...
All of them?? All of them died??
Joe and Erza could see that he had taken an unimaginable hit at least mentally and waited for him to slightly calm down and ask what happened then...
It took him 10 minutes to finally subside his emotions and then something clicked him...
If Elein and the founders died then how is it that he is okay after using his maximum capacity of Elein powers??
Last time he did that although his limit of destroying his body was at 15%, he survived because the others shared the burden...
Can it be they didn't die but got trapped inside the space cage as well?? If so then where is Elein?? I know for certain that if she truly goes out of control, she will simply scratch her pussy while munching on Acnologia's body for breakfast...
With this in mind, he looked at them and instead of motioning them to tell him the rest he asked a question...
Ryouji : What happened to Elein and where is, Irene??
Yes, Irene was the first person to ever make contact with Elein apart from him so finding her would solve pretty much every piece of the puzzle he had...
Joe : We never found mom... As for Elein, she vanished with the rest of my mothers...
Erza : What Joe said is correct... Even after 2 years of the world being destroyed upside down no signs could be found of her...
Erza : After those 2 years Zeref returned supposedly in his sane condition and united both continents powers in an attempt to save the world since Acnologia had been sealed...
Joe : From that point forward everything slowly started falling apart as Dragons had mated and small hatchlings came in the open...
Joe : Mom Mira died protecting the other kids, which after a few years they passed away as well...
Joe : I'm the only one left dad...
Erza : Ryouji, all in all, everyone vanished... If you want to count which family members have stayed behind that would be me and Joe...
Ryouji's brain had stopped working, or more like had stopped listening to what they were saying. Only two?? Only two of my huge family survived??
No, no, no, no, don't despair yet... Ask... Ask what happened to Zeref...
Ryouji : What happened to Zeref...??
Erza : As if dying like a mortal he was wounded by a Dragon as he protected Natsu, that was 19 years ago...
Erza : He then told everyone about the gate that it is their only option of using it and go back in time to warn you...
Joe : However during the next 4 years as we planned a suicide mission something happened...
Ryouji : What??
Joe : Rogue a Dragonslayer upon the death of Frosh from his best friend hands which was accidental as they battle a few Dragons...
Ryouji : Eh???
Wait, what?? Didn't Frosh died from Gray??? Exactly how much did the timeline changed??
Joe : From there both of them had gone crazy for different but similar reasons and as a result, Rogue killed Sting and somehow absorbed his Dragon Slayers Powers...
Erza : The weirdest thing though was that when he finally tuned both of them a few Dragons started obeying him...
Joe : Through that, in the few next months he thought of something...
Ryouji : I think i can guess...
Joe : Well it's not hard... He used both powers to slip past inside the Iced Shell and thrown himself inside the gate with his whereabouts unknown...
Erza : Our best guess is that he managed to go back, but we can't find in what timeline he reached...
Ryouji finally smiled and this didn't escape Erza and Joe and at that moment they finally realised that Ryouji knows what happened afterwards at least partially...
Ryouji : After that, i guess your suicide mission was to help someone use the Gate somehow and send him or her back as well...